Western cyclone., 1887-04-07
MISSING LINKS.
THE SONG I'M THE MIGHT.

Come tuck your silly head under your wing;
You'll rouse our good neighbors too soon"
But the little bird few to the top of the tree,
And looked up into the sky.
"Our time for singing is short" quoth he,
"And sing in the night will t.
james Buckham, in st. Nicholas.
A fashionable wedding present is a
door-plate with the bridegroom's name
on it.
Old Dan Rice is living in Cincinnati
in private leisure, varied by an occa-
sional spree.
Lucy Stone predicts that woman
will be President of the United States
in the year 1000.
An artesian we'll at ST. Augustine,
Fla, throws up 100000 gallons OF
sulphur water daily.
The long iron bridge at Bismarck,
D. T., contracts and expands eleven
inches by the heat and cold.
During the past nine years $4,000
physicians have graduated from the
medical colleges in this country.
A rich silver mine. supposed to have
been worked IN the days of the padres,
has been discovered in the mountains
near Santa Ana, Cal.
Bartholdi has written a letter to
Senator Evarts, in which he says that
the Statue of Liberty will last as long
as any Egyptian monument.
The Germans are making piano cases
of paper. They are creamy white, and
are said to improve the tone in quality,
though diminishing its volume.
The highest spot inhabited by human
beings is said to be the Buddhist
cloister of Hanie, Thibet, where twenty
one priests live at an altitude of $4,000
feet.
The streams penetrating the Gogebic
iron range near the south shore OF
Lake Superior are so black with dis
coloration from the ore that fish can
not live in them.
Mr.. Whittier's death is being hasten
ed by the insatiate horde of autograph
fiends and ambitious poets who send
their manuscripts to be reviewed by the
kind-hearted bard.
Sol Palmer, who strung the first
telegraph line out of New York, is still
alive at the comparatively early age of
sixty-ive, and actively engaged in the
business Of telegraphy.
Colonel Sam G. Reid has three times
offered to present the United States
with the sword his father used at the
battle Of Fayal, but Congress pays no
attention to the offer.
A queer fish was recently sent to the
South Kensington aquarium. It was a
stickleback that looked very much like
an old mouse. English scientists are
puzzled by SO strange a departure.
Miss Jennie Gray works a farm of
16O acres in Bottineau county, Dakota,
and says she could work another one if
the fellows who want to marry and
settle down would quit bothering her.
A man in Baltimore claims to have
been forced, on three different occa-
sions, to 60 through the marriage cere-
mony with women who were perfect
strangers to him, and none of whom he
mas seen since.
Pope Leo XIII. will not touch the
IS, $780, 900 placed in Rome bank to
his credit by the Italian government,
and about 100000 has been for
feited because neither he nor Plus TX.
would touch it.
Baron de Joest of Paris, noted all
his life for his cruel treatment of all
men and animals he came in contact
with, has left his whole estate of $780,
900 to the Society for the Prevention
Of Cruelty to Animals.
Mrs. Frances Hodgscn Burnett gives
the following directions for writing
novel: "You must have a pen, ink
and paper. Use the first with brains,
the second with imagination and the
third with generosity"
A New York man some time ago in
vested $4,000 in iron and coal vent
ures in Alabama. Dissatisfied with
what he afterward thought wildcat
venture he gave it to his wife, who is
now drawing $4,000 a month on its
dividends.
It is claimed that pail or tub of
fresh cold water, renewed several
times in the course of twenty-four
hours, will absorb all the evil odor of
fresh paint in day or two. In the
time Of spring cleaning the remedy
will be found extremely useful.
Two human skeletons have been
found imbedled in the walls of
bowlder near Tuscon, A. T. When
found they were in sitting posture.
Sitting down on top of bowlder is a
modern accomplishment, but to sit
down inside of bowlder is lost art.
The Southern Practitioner saws that
the gelatine capsules. so much used in
the administration of unpleasant medi-
cines, arc insoluble in alcohol. For
this reason it is useless to give metli-
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